Places to visit in Afyonkarahisar
5 places from Afyonkarahisar province are on the map: Afyon Castle, Kocatepe, Phrygian Valley, Akdağ (Sandıklı), and Sultan Mountains. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Afyon Castle
Afyonkarahisar · Historic Sites
How does a city forget the color in its own name? For centuries this city was known as Karahisar, the “black castle”, after the dark rock that rises abruptly from the middle of the plain…
See on the map →Kocatepe
Afyonkarahisar · Historic Sites
Would you believe that a nation’s destiny could fit into a single morning? On August 26, 1922, before dawn had even broken, Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha had climbed the rocks of…
See on the map →Phrygian Valley
Afyonkarahisar · Valleys & Canyons
How do you make a rock speak? The Phrygians found the answer long before we did: by hollowing it, chiseling it, working a door, an eye, a prayer into its face… Those who walk the valleys…
See on the map →Akdağ (Sandıklı)
Afyonkarahisar · Mountain Ranges
In Gilgamesh, one of humanity’s oldest known epics, two heroes, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, set out on a long journey toward the Cedar Forest, guarded by the gods. The forest is so sacred that…
See on the map →Sultan Mountains
Afyonkarahisar · Mountain Ranges
Why would a mountain be called “sultan”? Perhaps because a sultan’s road once passed that way, or perhaps because it looks down on the plains at its feet like a ruler… We don’t know the…
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